## B. DISTRIBUTION OF FOODSTUFFS

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RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B) ON THE PROJECT OF M. A. LARIN 
AND A. Z. GOLTZMAN*.
[May 10, 1921]

Reject the Larin and All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions¹ project, instructing the authors of the project to reconsider the question a second time more thoroughly from the point of view especially of the possibility of ensuring real provisioning with a minimum of foodstuffs for the minimum [necessary] workers.

After revision, submit the project to the Council of People's Commissars for the purpose of introducing it as an experiment in some enterprises in place of individual ration-card distribution, collective provisioning under the condition of increased labor productivity.

¹ The project of M. A. Larin and A. Z. Goltzman, member of the presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, who oversaw the tariff department, concerning the provisioning of the largest enterprises with foodstuffs, was discussed in the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on May 10, 1921 (see Lenin's note to N. P. Gorbunov, Lenin Miscellany, vol. XX, p. 305). The resolution of the Council of People's Commissars on collective provisioning of workers and employees was adopted on June 14 and by the Council of Labor and Defense on June 17, 1921 (see ibid., pp. 305–306).

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## NOTE TO V. A. SMOLYANINOV*

To Comrade Smolyaninov.

5/8 [1921]

Is this being observed? Are there contracts?

Lenin.

¹ Lenin's questions concern the standard (normal) tariff contract: on collective provisioning, sent to Lenin by the People's Commissariat of Food.* *

* At the top of the document there is Lenin's notation: N.B. and the secretary's notation "point 4." In the agenda of the Central Committee meeting of May 10, 1921, point 4 consisted of the question concerning the exchange fund for workers. Ed.

** The note was written by Lenin in the margins of the form of the contract on collective provisioning. Ed.